Windows XP

Does anyone know if Arcanum will work under Windows XP? Also, if it does, would there be a performance difference between running it under Home Edition or Professional Edition?

 

It *should* work fine under XP (AFAIK, XP has all the DirectX and multimedia components that 2000 has, and more, and Arcanum works fine under 2000). As for performance differences... I have no idea.

 

Yes, it works¡¡ Much better than ME, in my computer at least

 

you people are alien to me, notin works that I use under xp. sucks

 

So what is the conclusion then?

Is Xp an improvement of windows, or is it just a hype? And I`m not only thinking of while playing Arcanum, but in general.

And yes..we are aliens!

- Zen

 

XP has just been release here, last Oct. 31.

 

Jinxed, what is the prob? If your XP sucks, why won't you just throw it away? It smells like masochism to me.

Now about Windows XP.

To my opinion, this is the best Windows ever. Even on native "Microsoftish" drivers game performance is a lot better than Win 2000 and EVEN Millennium Edition.

But why read my mumblings, when you can listen to an expert? Here is a very useful link, if one cares...

http://www.lockergnome.com/issues/speci ... owsxp.html

 

From what I've heard, Windows XP sucks more than...something that sucks really bad, like waking up in a pool of someone else's vomit.

I'd wait until the guinea pigs, I mean suckers, I mean adventurous types have given their long term impressions (knew I'd get it right eventually :smile.

My friend tried it, said it sucked, heaps of other people have tried it and said it sucked. Therefore it sucks :smile:.

 

No, therefore it is their opinion that it sucks. I have installed it since I originally posted this topic. Everything on my computer runs more smoothly, the graphics look better, it sounds better, etc. It may be that your friends or whomever you talked to don't like changes in general, didn't verify they had all the appropriate xp drivers downloaded, didn't verify all their hardware and software was compatible before installing, or various other reasons they had a bad experiences. Remember, people's opinions are not facts.

 

Russian pirates haven't hacked XP yet, so I dunno anything about it. 98 SE suits me just fine (I know what Linux is, and I dont like it)

 

The hacked "corporate" version with no product activation has been out for months now.

To each his own, concerning OSes. All I know is that I'm finally going to be upgrading my system, and I'm going to use this opportunity to ditch 98se. It's between 2000 and XP pro, and I'm leaning towards XP.

 

I dont live in a very big city, so I havent seen it yet. And after all I dunno if it's worth buying. But I've heard MANY bad things about W2000.

 

Win 2000 is great. It's far superior to ME and 98. From what I've heard, the same goes for XP. However, as a rule, I don't use Microsoft OS'es until there is at least one service pack out for it and all the minor problems with it have been resolved, so I'm sticking to 2000.